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February 13, 2025

Thursday 13 February 2025

17:00 - Seventeenth-Century Foxe? Samuel Clarke and Presbyterian Historiography
Matthew Leech-Gerrard (New College, Oxford)
17:00 - Regulatory Failure and the Moral Antecedents of Public Banking in England, 1559-1642
Raphael Adès (Christ Church, Oxford)

Thursday 20 February 2025

17:00 - Katherine Parr’s Lamentation of a Sinner (1547), Cranmer’s Homilies, and the Production of the Book of Common Prayer
Professor Micheline White (Carleton University)

Thursday 27 February 2025

17:00 - English Politics and the Colonial Revolutions of 1689
Dr Gabriel Glickman (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)

Thursday 6 March 2025

17:00 - Library Access in Early-Modern Europe: English and Scottish Scholars Abroad and the Limits of Knowledge Exchange
Dr John-Mark Philo (University of East Anglia and Bodleian Library)

Thursday 13 March 2025

17:00 - First year graduate presentations

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Simon Healy has died

November 05, 2024

I am extremely sorry to report that Simon Healy, who worked for the History of Parliament Trust's 1604-1629 section for many years, has died. I remember him as a very cheerful and engaging conversationalist. My condolences go to his widow and their two children.

Centre and Locality: review reflections

April 14, 2021

Quite by chance, I was browsing on Twitter last Friday (9 th April) when I spotted on Edward Vallance’s site a reference to a video conference organised by William Clayton of the University of East Anglia at the end of last month. Further searches led me to William Clayton’s review of the book edited by Chris Kyle and Jason Peacey, Connecting Centre and Locality: Communication in early modern England, which appeared under the auspices of the Manchester University Press in 2020 and which Clayton had reviewed for The Seventeenth Century in its most recent issue. [1] This is a subject which interests me and I did give some thought to responding to William Clayton’s largely laudatory comments. However, I was also conscious that I had not read this collection of essays and was thus less well equipped than I should be for assessing either the book or William Clayton’s review. There was, however, one historiographical issue upon which I did feel qualified to comment. Right at the st...

Call for Papers: IHR conference on 'Corruption and Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800' (pasted)

December 30, 2024

CFP: Corruption and Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 5th and 6th June 2025 Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London Scandals and instances of corruption shock and delight, and are recurring themes in political and institutional spheres. Reactions to these events shape politics, and provide key insights into the socio-religious and political outlooks of the societies in which they take place. In the early modern period, the meanings of scandal and corruption extended beyond our modern understanding of these terms. Concentrating on 1500-1800 - a time of religious, political, and social development and upheaval - this interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore various instances, responses to, and perceptions of scandal and corruption across Europe and the wider world. Through this event, we seek to explore specific examples of scandal and corruption, reflect upon these terms in their broadest senses, including religious, political,...